Michael Vogt writes ("[Bug 54234] Re: update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg/apt before calculating the upgrade to support the new "breaks""): > The alternative is of course to not use breaks until edgy+1 (which would > be unfortunate, but given the current situation with the lack of a > backported apt and the lack of time until release it may well be the > only feasible way).
There have been at least two cases of Breaks being used in the archive that I know of, one of which would be tedious to back out. I think the real alternative is a special non-auto-built version of the libapt and python-apt packages. Ian. -- update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg/apt before calculating the upgrade to support the new "breaks" https://launchpad.net/bugs/54234 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs